Neil Postman Quotes

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Something else has happened with computers.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Software makes the world go round.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.